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Is it not a well known fact that parrots can talk?

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kitryne: Is it not a well known fact that parrots can talk?

They mimic vocalizations well, but I'm fairly certain the researchers were looking at the animals ability to be cognizant of the meaning of their vocalizations.

Which is a great thing to study, ignorant subby.

Science is faggy!

Nevermore.

Study: Scientists use experimentation on immune system response in mice to further understand ways in which cancer can be treated.

Fark submitter: TAX DOLLERS USED FOR POKING MICES HURR HURRRRR

My folks have a couple of African Gray parrots that are pretty damn smart. Obviously, parrots pick up on words all the time, but these guys pick up the meaning of a lot of those words. They know what corn is, cheese, "fresh water," the names of the dogs - stuff like that.

One of the funniest damn things I've ever seen one do: He fell off his perch somehow, and when he hit the bottom of the cage, in a voice that sounded exactly like my father, he yelled, "GODDAMNIT."

Rye_: One of the funniest damn things I've ever seen one do: He fell off his perch somehow, and when he hit the bottom of the cage, in a voice that sounded exactly like my father, he yelled, "GODDAMNIT."

Which sounds like "ability to be cognizant of the meaning of their vocalizations" isn't out of the question.

Rye_: One of the funniest damn things I've ever seen one do: He fell off his perch somehow, and when he hit the bottom of the cage, in a voice that sounded exactly like my father, he yelled, "GODDAMNIT."

i lol'd.
Thats awesome.

/hope the bird wasn't hurt.

abb3w: Rye_: One of the funniest damn things I've ever seen one do: He fell off his perch somehow, and when he hit the bottom of the cage, in a voice that sounded exactly like my father, he yelled, "GODDAMNIT."

Which sounds like "ability to be cognizant of the meaning of their vocalizations" isn't out of the question.

And I didn't even get a grant for that research dammit!

SilentStrider:
/hope the bird wasn't hurt.

Nah, they're pretty tough.

Rye_: My folks have a couple of African Gray parrots that are pretty damn smart.

That's kind of scary. If they evolve opposable feathers we're farked.

Unimpressed, say hi to your mother for me

Knowledge is power, knownothingmitter. The more you know...

Answers: Yes, yes, yes, no.

Send me the $6.5 mil, please. $20's and $50's preferred.

kitryne: Is it not a well known fact that parrots can talk?

/DRTFA

My best friends Quaker parrot starts screaming "asshole" every time it sees me, so they not only talk but are excellent judges of character too.

i coulda told em no for 50 bucks and a half pound of bacon

Like Fry! Like Fry!

I'm speechless.

Now for a study on which is the tastiest.

DAMN LIBERAL SCIENCE! Taking away our hard earned dollars that could be used for blowin' up Eye-Raqis and wastin' it on fancy elitist book learnin'!

"...and my cousin, you know the one who works with the scientists, told me they're nearly on to us!"

Writing up grant proposal:

Nice to see science and advancement are looked down upon by the ignorant submitard.

National Geo has a GREAT story on this...

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/03/animal-minds/virginia-morell-text

After reading this, There is no question in my mind that some animals have sentience.

I promise, that if you read this you will never look at your Dog, or Bird the same way again.



/not that way.
//you furry perv!

...parrots?

How dare those scientists try to discover the secrets of the natural world and define what it means to be human!

well, why not. if you can communicate with them, the world opens up in fascinating ways that it would be foolish to pass up.

Submitter pissed because it will not result in the submitter to be able to talk to the opposite sex/go on first date.

No.

$6,500,000 please

Sorry forgot to make it a proper link to the National Geo story on Animal Minds.

Link

Of course they can talk. They should have spent the money trying to figure out why we can't understand.

Scientific discovery does not start with the words "Eureka", it typically starts with the words "That's odd".

A lot of these studies sound ridiculous when all you know about it is one line like this. But if taken in context, knowing the full scope and reason behind it, and if you realize that a LOT of technological/medical/science breakthroughs have happened because of thousands of studies like this that sounded every bit as ridiculous on the surface, then maybe one wouldn't be so quick to call something "stupid"

Dear lord, the only people that are more scientifically retarded than journalists are the people who think the journalists' accounts of research tell the full story. I mean, the journalists' audiences are the same people who think that the earth was "created" but gay people "chose" to be gay. Those people can't comprehend an undergraduate thesis, much less real science.

deltabourne: DAMN LIBERAL SCIENCE! Taking away our hard earned dollars that could be used for blowin' up Eye-Raqis and wastin' it on fancy elitist book learnin'!

THIS. Really, $6 million to uncover the secrets of the animal kingdom is immensely cheap, considering that we could apply that knowledge in other areas.

$6 million dollars is what, a few hours of the Iraq occupation?

Gyrfalcon: Answers: Yes, yes, yes, no.

Send me the $6.5 mil, please. $20's and $50's preferred.

I'm sure you can prove it though right?

No chimpanzees can talk, i saw it in a movie once, they talk and ride horses, and i also saw an episode of the Simpsons where it seems they can play piano too.

If I could talk to the animals
Just imagine it
Talking to a chimp in chimpanzee

tonesskin: Dear lord, the only people that are more scientifically retarded than journalists are the people who think the journalists' accounts of research tell the full story.

Indeed.
I have been quoted by a few reports (mostly local papers) and it almost never comes out right. None of it has been malicious, but they definitely don't capture the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

Sounds reasonable, at least as the beginning, after all, _what_ if they do talk? Wouldn't we want to know what they're saying?

/vegans for the win.
//I'll miss bacon, no lie.

some swedish girl: No chimpanzees can talk, i saw it in a movie once, they talk and ride horses, and i also saw an episode of the Simpsons where it seems they can play piano too.



pray for mojo

Dr. Irene Pepperberg has been doin' stuff like this for decades...

http://www.alexfoundation.org/alex_the_parrot.html

Anyone else watch Nature on PBS tonight about Clever Monkeys (p)

Lots of talking.

ninjakirby: kitryne: Is it not a well known fact that parrots can talk?

They mimic vocalizations well, but I'm fairly certain the researchers were looking at the animals ability to be cognizant of the meaning of their vocalizations.

Which is a great thing to study, ignorant subby.

Ravens, yes, and it was settled decades ago by a Nobel Prize winning ethologist.

Damn scientists are so farking IGNORANT of even the most recent history. Bugger! to think I read Lorenz in a humanities class, but nobody in the sciences even know who he is. Now this crap faking-a-question-for-grant-money pseudoscience. More proof that the real genius in today's universities is in humanities instead of those self-righteous snowflakes in natural science.

Of course animals can talk. I do it everyday.

theinsultabot9000: pray for mojo

It's like he's me and i'm him. The similarities between us and monkeys are spooky.

I'm a parrot and I'm getting a kick out of these replies, out of these replies, BRAWWK

Bald, Round Headed Manc Twat agrees.
/Monkey News